decoding words with short, long, or variant vowels, trigraphs, and blends;
decoding words with silent letters such as knife and gnat;
decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables;
decoding compound words, contractions, and common abbreviations;
decoding words using knowledge of syllable division patterns such as VCCV, VCV, and VCCCV;
decoding words with prefixes, including un-, re-, and dis-, and inflectional endings, including -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, and -est; and
identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research-based list;